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926. No Small Parts

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... you. And no actor in a ratty bathrobe is going to change my mind. RJ: (pulling at his robe) Well, I’ll admit it’s no Tommy Hilfiger, but it was fashionable for the time. Look, nobody “set you up,” and I’m not here to confuse you. I just wanted to help you do what your director said. Think about this part and how important it really was. Joseph: (picking up the script and showing it to RJ) It’s small. RJ: Only in words. Joseph: Well what else is there? The Bible stories are all we have to tell ...

927. Home By Another Way

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... ? Narrator: The three Wise Men woke up suddenly, shaking from the vision. Wise Man 1: That’s it. I’m laying off the couscous for a while. Wise Man 2: It wasn’t the couscous. It was my stubbornness and stupidity. (calls to Servant 1) Please bring the maps. I want to avoid even passing near Herod’s castle. Servant 1: (handing over the maps) So, we’re not going to Herod? Wise Man 2: I’m a little slow sometimes. I owe you an apology. You were being a good servant, not only to us, but also to the God ...

928. What the Lord Does Best

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... share a story that he and Wayne Piott had shared together. Thinking that it might be fit into a sermon somewhere along the way. Now I want you to know that not all the stories Burt Ferguson shares or Wayne Piott or a lot of you is worth putting into a sermon, but ... that has made a difference in my life or in the life of someone else, and will that difference last for a month? Now you may want to write these down as I give them to you, because if you’re serious you can use them next week. What have I done ...

929. Every Day God Enables

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... through the adversities of life and begin sing Praise to God. Our Every Day God Enables Us To Proclaim. That's our first Call remember, to Go and Tell and make Disciples. And when God has walked with us and strengthened us Every Day, we not only want to Praise God, we want to share the good stuff that's been happening in our lives because of God. Rev. Wayne Brouwer says when he was pastor in his first congregation he sat in the home of one of his members and the husband said to him, "You're more evangelical ...

930. Count the Stars

Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... have failed. They say inflation is not yet a problem; still, living day to day seems to be increasingly expensive. Some of us are dealing with issues relating to our health or with aging. If you and I were to fixate on the obstacles surrounding us we would want to grab a security blanket, sit in a corner with our thumb in our mouth, and not move. Linus and Charlie Brown are walking in the woods. Linus poses this question to Charlie: “If you have some problem in your life, do you believe you should try to ...

931. Followed By Mercy

Psalm 23:6

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... need someone like that. Someone who "tells [us] not to do things that are bad." The 23rd Psalm tells us we have someone just like that; God in Christ, through the Holy Spirit. Let's look at the 23rd Psalm again. [1] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. [2] He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. [3] He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. [4] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will ...

932. Why Join a Church?

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... people in a church when we can build our own sacred spaces and have the money to escape to some paradise island? Well, maybe there was a time when that would do. But things are different now. When the world stopped turning that September day, we discovered we did not want to be alone; we needed to belong. We needed a faith to carry on. So we went to church and held hands with a stranger and said a prayer in the midst of danger. We discovered something a year or so ago that I think will be healthy for us ...

933. What Would Jesus Say About Me?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... showing us the way to live. He was full of grace and truth which helps us find our way home. In Jesus we can rediscover the lost “image of God" within. Who am I? Jesus would say, 'You are endowed and designed as a child of God.' What do I want? Jesus says you are created with spiritual desires. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea during the time of King Herod, Magi came from the east and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?" Who were these strange visitors from Iraq or Iran ...

934. When You Are Up And Out

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... your house.” Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little man was he, He climbed up in the sycamore tree for the Lord he wanted to see. And as the Savior passed that way, he looked up in the tree, And he said, “Zacchaeus, you come down, For I’m ... your date book and check book. Where we spend our time and how we spend our money tells us more about ourselves than we often want to know. As my Daddy used to say, “Start living your life so the preacher won’t have to lie at your funeral to say something ...

935. How to Stay Humble in a Haughty World - Sermon Starter

Luke 14:1-14

Illustration

Brett Blair

... for the Miami Dolphins, if he would help his alma mater do some recruiting. Mike said, "Sure, coach. What kind of player are you looking for?" The coach said, "Well Mike, you know there's that fellow, you knock him down, he just stays down?" Mike said, "We don't want him, do we, coach?" "No, that's right. Then there's that fellow, you knock him down and he gets up, you knock him down again and he stays down." Mike said, "We don't ...

936. One of the Family

Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the garbage picked up and all the lawn chairs folded and put away, we had to scrub and hose off the patio. She didn't want ANY ants in her house. After lunch, after all the reminiscing, we'd usually watch a baseball game or one of the races while the ... and forth about who was better and who was going to beat who. And the dad's started getting a little irritated and decided they wanted to bet something. Of course, we didn't have anything to bet with. We were lowly teenagers with little or no money. All of a ...

937. Adopted

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the Roman world to be adopted. It still is a special thing to be adopted today. A little girl came home from school one day very sad. Her mother, sensing that something was wrong, tried to find out what the problem was. At first the little girl didn’t want to talk about it but finally through tears she told how she had been made fun of at school by some of the other kids because she was adopted. “No one really loves you,” the children taunted her. So her adopted mother held her in her arms, slowly ...

938. Stuff!

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

... 24 hours a day without having the stuff underfoot every day. That feels better. Just fessing up to my hoarding feels better. And you know what else it does? It makes me go just a little bit easier on the rich man who finds himself with a bountiful harvest and wants to keep every last kernel of grain. But let's be clear ... just because I can identify with him doesn't mean that I think he and I have the right idea. As you can probably tell, I feel guilty about keeping all my stuff and not sharing it with ...

939. But I Really Like the Best Seat in the House!

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

... more colorful couples oblivious to the fact that we had already started. But no one laughed at the coincidence, nor frowned at their interruption, for we all knew that it was to such as these that the kingdom belongs. When I get off my high horse and leave my "I want to be at the top" attitude behind; when I disregard those symbols of importance that I cling to in order to show myself and you that I've got it all together; when I recognize that you and I are as broken as any poor, crippled, lame, or blind ...

940. The Final Word

John 11:25-26; Ephesians 1:12, 18-19

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... a Hallmark™ card, and says, "Oh, I know that he will rise on the last day ... but that doesn't help me here, right now. I want him alive. And you weren't here. Jesus, if you'd a been here, my brother would not have died." Do you hear the anger? Jesus ... that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the wonderful future he has promised to those he called. I want you to realize what a rich and glorious inheritance he has given to his people. I pray that you will begin to understand the ...

941. Fear of Missing Out

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... life gathered around Him, Jesus tells us that we are invited to tune in, join in, come in, be in relationship with Him. And that when we do, Jesus will turn our FOMO (fear of missing out) into JOY. God’s invitation is that one that we don’t want to miss out on. And everyone is invited. Living without God is living a FOMO life filled with voids and longing. And I guarantee you, if you tune out Jesus’ good news, you are totally “missing out” on the invitation to God’s party. But if you open your ...

942. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... epitome of narcissism in our culture to have our electronic assistant always at our beck and call. Before we know it, we can approach God this way too. We can think God is at our beck and call. That our prayers should be answered just the way we want things to go. But Jesus is not our beck and "call girl." To approach Jesus this way is to bastardize our relationship with the Savior, and to prostitute the Gospel. Many people today think that prayer is a matter of "asking" our Jesus-Siri to solve our problems ...

943. Where the Church Gets Its Power

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... inclusive fellowship. It is unshockable. It is democratic. You can tell people secrets, and they usually don’t tell others or even want to. The bar flourishes not because most people are alcoholics, but because God has put into the human heart the desire to ... and so many seek a counterfeit at the price of a few beers. With all my heart,” this writer concludes, “I believe that Christ wants his church to be unshockable, a fellowship where people can come in and say, ‘I’m sunk, I’m beat, I’ve had it ...

944. Appetites and Desires

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in life and are met by Harvard Business School, by corporate mergers, by back room deals, and also, more subtly, by public accolades, and the “thatta-boy/thatta-girl” approval of our work by others, whatever that work might be. “I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” Paul wrote a lot of theological essays. But among all his amazing spiritual gifts, he probably never wrote a truer insight into the human spirit than in this Romans’ text. Our appetites drive us. They can drive us ...

945. On the Ropes: Round 3 - Defending God

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... when times are tough and your faith is on the ropes, God is all you have, God is all you need and God is enough. He says in verse 18, “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” (Habakkuk 3:18, NIV) I want you to circle two words – the first word in verse 17 and the first word in verse 18 – “though” and “yet.” Habakkuk was saying, “When the worst things that could happen to me, do happen to me, they will bring out the best things that are in me. Even though ...

946. The Journey Begins

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... just reading a story about them. You are reading a story about you. The steps they took are the steps we must take if we want to get on the greatest journey of all – one that will lead us right into a God-filled eternity. The first step of this journey ... look many times. I’ve had conversations like this many times with my wife, “Teresa, I think that is a bad idea. I really don’t want to do that right now. I had really rather go another time. Can we do this later?” She doesn’t say a word. She just ...

947. Come One, Come All

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... disciples we find in the next chapter, we read in verse 15, “And Simon who was called the Zealot.” (Luke 6:15, ESV) Simon, the Zealot, was on the other end of the spectrum from Levi the tax collector. He was a freedom fighter. He was a terrorist! If you wanted to hire someone to murder Levi, Simon would have been your man. In this band of brothers, you’ve got a tax collector on one hand and a traitor on the other one. Not only does Jesus ask the least likely and the least lovely to follow Him, He even ...

948. For Those Who Are Auditing the Class

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... When Christ asked his followers to take up a cross, he knew that is where his life would end. He could not ask his followers to give their lives if he held his back. Christian faith is really not for those who are determined to audit the course. The Father wants to do great things through us and He can do great things through us if we are willing to give Him our all. Some unknown author once put it like this: Isn’t it strange that princes and kings And clowns that caper in sawdust rings And common people ...

949. Peacemaker

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... to pass on next year to someone else?” Most of us if we’re honest have “regifted something to someone else that we didn’t want. I confessed last week I have and most of you have too. We are in a series we are calling “regifted.” One of the things ... is not just external peace; it is an internal peace. You are probably saying right now, “I don’t care what it is, I just want to know where to find it.” 33 years later, this little baby now a grown man tells us in one other statement that we find ...

950. Can One Become Two?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... if not most couples who get married is this thought, “If it doesn’t work out we can always get a divorce and if we want to we can do it all over again with somebody else.” As Jesus continues His discourse on this subject you can summarize everything He ... and not everybody is going to obey it. If you are going to stay in the center of God’s will and be obedient to what He wants you to do then it is until death do you part. If you have never said “I do,” you had better think long and hard because ...

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